So how many people does it take to abolish a government?

[T Roosevelt]

On reading the Declaration of Independence:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

What would Thomas Jefferson say?

[jtrockville]

1. Thomas Jefferson never imagined the apathy that exists today...

I'd say 20%. But good luck finding anyone who can be torn away from the evening's television lineup.

[liberal N proud]

3. Apathy is what allowed this to happen

People in the United States have become too complacent, too comfortable and have just sit back and whine when things are not as they should be.
But yet no one will rise up. I keep asking myself, were are the people from the 60's and early 70's, those people would not have stood for this.

[AIJ Alom]

2. One...See George W. Bush.

The answer to your heading is my heading.

The problem is we cannot have a modern day American Revolution. The public is far too entertained by the boob tube to care. The way we can turn this around is by electing the people that best represent our interests.